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There’d be no us tonight. There’d be no anything.
I hit the button to unlock the car and climbed in behind the wheel. The door to the house opened as the engine started. They all stepped out, staring as I shoved the Audi into gear and backed out, turned hard, and headed away from our mountain oasis.
There was no tremble in my hands now, no doubt in my heart. Faith steadied me. My cell vibrated in the console beside me. I glanced at the caller ID, though I instantly knew it was my family.
An ache radiated through my chest. But as the pain grew deeper, the image of that sundrenched cross on the ground filled my mind. I was doing this for them…and for me.
They needed to trust me.
I pushed the sedan harder and headed into the city. Marketplace was on the edge of town, down near the water. It was a place of joy and laughter, with playgrounds and a towering Ferris wheel. A place for families, not a place for death. But that’s exactly where I was headed.
I scanned the cars, searching for something Caleb would drive, and pulled into a parking spot across from a black Jeep Wrangler. The moment I reached to kill the engine, the Jeep’s back-up lights flared. As the four-wheel drive backed up, I caught sight of Caleb through the window. He motioned me forward, wanting me to follow.
Where the hell was he taking me? I scanned the streets as we passed. Children held hands with their parents, eating ice cream as they walked along the sidewalk. But we quickly left them all behind and turned onto a street that took us nowhere, until he stopped outside a gray, nondescript building and the steel-gated garage door rose. Then he drove inside.
I followed, easing the Audi around a turn until I came out in an under-ground parking area. Headlights bounced against glass walls as Caleb parked. I caught sight of the Black Escalade the Sons drove and a sleek steel-gray BMW.
It wasn’t until I’d killed the engine and climbed out that I saw them.
Colt.
Benjamin Rossi.
And Caleb as he climbed out of the Jeep and headed toward me.
“Thomas,” he called as Benjamin and Colt headed toward me.
The moment felt ominous and charged. Goosebumps raced along my arms. I didn’t know what we were in for tonight, where our violence would take us, or how many we might kill. What I did know was that this path of sin would be my salvation.
FIFTEEN
Helene
“What the fuck?” Riven muttered as the sound of the front door closing gave a heavy thud.
I lifted my head, my lips burning from Hunter’s raspy four-day growth. His hands were on my hips, pulling me harder against him as I straddled him on the sofa.
But the sound of the front door closing drew all our focus. Riven pushed up from the sofa across from us, his focus no longer on the way I fucked his brother. None of ours were. I pushed backwards, letting Hunter’s hands slip free.
“Riven, where the hell is he going?”
“Hell if I know,” he snarled as he headed for the front door.
I followed as the faint thud of the car door could be heard. Hunter and Kane were right behind me. Riven unlocked the door and stepped out, letting the cool night air rush in. I wrapped my arms around myself as fear pushed in.
“Did you piss him off?” Kane asked, glancing at Riven.
“Who the fuck knows?”
Headlights blinded us as Thomas turned the wheel, backed out of the driveway, and headed through the towering gate as it rolled open.
“Call him,” Riven murmured, sounding desperate, and glanced my way. “He’ll answer if it’s you.”
I turned around, pushed through the front door, and ran to the kitchen. Where the hell are you going, Thomas? My mind raced. Had I pushed him too hard the other day in his bedroom? He’d been acting strange since then.
Idiot!
I snatched my cell from the counter as heavy footsteps came behind me. My hands shook as I pulled up the contacts and swiped, calling his number.
